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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7276164" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I finished up A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark by Harry Connolly. Urban Fantasy of the hidden magic variety. I liked the concept for magic that they came up with, it was a fresh take. And they did a good job of putting in backstory to flesh out the characters that wasn't just checking boxes of Chekov's Gun. But the nature of magic meant that the actions for the first 2/3 of the book seemed somewhat disjointed and unrelated - you followed around for the ride but you didn't have clues to get out in front of it and go "ah ha!" except for a very few points. Something that also threw me off is that there is a character making a request in the prologue with large effect, but his dialog and such do not seem to be in line with other things we find out later in the book. (Don't want to spoil, PM me for more detail if you've read it.) I give it 3 of 5 stars.</p><p></p><p>I'm holding off buying new books because I put what I want on my holiday wishlist. I have a To Be Read pile but was in the mood for my not-so-secret vice, SF Naval Space battles. So I grabbed the closest Weber to reread, which happened to be Insurrection, with Steve White. I've read it several times before, but after getting a decent amount into it, the political scenes seems rather straightforward and frumpy compared to his later works, so I grabbed my e-reader and pulled up my copy of the first book in the series of that wonderful Mary Sue, Honor Harrington. On Basilisk Station is very little of the "we're the bestest star nation with the bestest tech and the bestest production yet still the underdog" that mars some of the later books. It's just a fun romp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7276164, member: 20564"] I finished up A Key, An Egg, An Unfortunate Remark by Harry Connolly. Urban Fantasy of the hidden magic variety. I liked the concept for magic that they came up with, it was a fresh take. And they did a good job of putting in backstory to flesh out the characters that wasn't just checking boxes of Chekov's Gun. But the nature of magic meant that the actions for the first 2/3 of the book seemed somewhat disjointed and unrelated - you followed around for the ride but you didn't have clues to get out in front of it and go "ah ha!" except for a very few points. Something that also threw me off is that there is a character making a request in the prologue with large effect, but his dialog and such do not seem to be in line with other things we find out later in the book. (Don't want to spoil, PM me for more detail if you've read it.) I give it 3 of 5 stars. I'm holding off buying new books because I put what I want on my holiday wishlist. I have a To Be Read pile but was in the mood for my not-so-secret vice, SF Naval Space battles. So I grabbed the closest Weber to reread, which happened to be Insurrection, with Steve White. I've read it several times before, but after getting a decent amount into it, the political scenes seems rather straightforward and frumpy compared to his later works, so I grabbed my e-reader and pulled up my copy of the first book in the series of that wonderful Mary Sue, Honor Harrington. On Basilisk Station is very little of the "we're the bestest star nation with the bestest tech and the bestest production yet still the underdog" that mars some of the later books. It's just a fun romp. [/QUOTE]
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